How can students use cultural investigation and interaction as a vehicle for communication?
Collaborate with fellow educators to design a unit that guides students to create a personal narrative by investigating and interacting with a new culture via a variety of connections. This session will also explore the new NCSSFL-ACTFL “can-do” statements for interculturality and how they can help drive the personal narrative. Participants will also learn how the “Rigor and Relevance” framework demonstrates how different tasks in the learning process impacts the students.
Toni Theisen
Thompson School District World Languages Curriculum Representative
Thompson School District Dual Language Immersion TOSA
2009 ACTFL Teacher of the Year
2013 President of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
NBCT World Languages
Essential Question
How can students use cultural investigation and interaction as a vehicle for communication?
Participant "I can" Targets
Participants can
use the NCSSFL-ACTFL “can-do” statements as a guide to help learners understand what they can do with the language in each of the 3 modes in the different proficiency ranges.
use the NCSSFL-ACTFL “can-do” statements when designing learning
explain and integrate intercultural competence (the ability to use the language and behave appropriately in cultural contexts) when designing learning
use the Rigor and Relevance framework when designing learning
Teachers must provide opportunities for learners to experience language and culture together, which requires almost exclusive use of the target language. These Interculturality Can-Do statements will allow the students to show their ability to use the language and behave appropriately in cultural contexts.
The NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements for Intercultural Communication show how language can be used to express interculturality.
The statements are a tool intended to clarify and support the World Readiness Cultures
Standards and lead learners toward developing intercultural communicative competence.
Teachers must provide opportunities for learners to experience language and culture together, which requires almost exclusive use of the target language. These Interculturality Can-Do statements will allow the students to show their ability to use the language and behave appropriately in cultural contexts.
Description
How can students use cultural investigation and interaction as a vehicle for communication?
Collaborate with fellow educators to design a unit that guides students to create a personal narrative by investigating and interacting with a new culture via a variety of connections. This session will also explore the new NCSSFL-ACTFL “can-do” statements for interculturality and how they can help drive the personal narrative. Participants will also learn how the “Rigor and Relevance” framework demonstrates how different tasks in the learning process impacts the students.
Contact Information
George StewartDirector of Curriculum & Program Development
EF Education First
Boston, Massachusetts
Toni Theisen
Thompson School District World Languages Curriculum Representative
Thompson School District Dual Language Immersion TOSA
2009 ACTFL Teacher of the Year
2013 President of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
NBCT World Languages
Essential Question
How can students use cultural investigation and interaction as a vehicle for communication?
Participant "I can" Targets
Participants can
Handout :
CCFLT 2016 TheisenandStewart handout.pdf
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PowerPoint as pdf:
CCFLT2017usettandgs-1.pdf
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Project Resources
Project-based Learning site with many projects for ideas
EF WeShare: Student Travel projects-Many excellent project designed by student. They will inspire you.
Here are some weShare student travel projects
ACTFL's new initiative: Lead with Languages: leadwithlanguages.org
Academy of Arts and Sciences 2017 Report on Languages:
ACTFL Academy Commission on Language Learning Americas' Languages.pdf
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Core Practices for World Language Learning
Learn more-videoCore Practices for Effective Language Leaning Preview Video
Interculturality "can-do" Resources-
How do embed culture?
Thanks to Jacque VanHouton and Ruta Couet, NCSSFLTeachers must provide opportunities for learners to experience language and culture together, which requires almost exclusive use of the target language. These Interculturality Can-Do statements will allow the students to show their ability to use the language and behave appropriately in cultural contexts.
ACTFL Global Competence Position Statement:
GlobalCompetencePositionStatement0814.pdf
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Purpose of the Can-Do Statements for Intercultural Competence Standards at the different proficiency ranges
Teachers must provide opportunities for learners to experience language and culture together, which requires almost exclusive use of the target language. These Interculturality Can-Do statements will allow the students to show their ability to use the language and behave appropriately in cultural contexts.Rigor and Relevance Framework